“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan sang. But these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture offerings is just what we need. With that in mind, here is what’s on the radar screen in TV, music and film for the coming week.

“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan sang, but these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture offerings is just what we need. With that in mind, here is what’s on the radar screen in TV, music and film for the coming week.

My brother used to play a lot of Black Sabbath. My mother used to yell “Turn that down!” a lot. Frank Sinatra was more to her taste. In fact, she blared My Way so often my brother came up with alternative lyrics — “I did it siiiiiiiiiideways,” he’d croon (mom likely would have offered alternative lyrics to Sweet Leaf, if only she’d known what Ozzy was singing about).

Name dropper. It’s a charge you could level at Susan Tedeschi if, well, she wasn’t Susan Tedeschi and if she wasn’t a member of rocking funk, soul, blues and gospel act Tedeschi Trucks Band, which she formed with husband and guitarist Derek Trucks.

By now, Terence Winter should really have gotten over being star-struck. The creator of HBO’s critically hailed Boardwalk Empire has just finished writing Martin Scorsese’s next movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street. He’s writing a film for director Ben Affleck that will star Matt Damon as gangster Whitey Bulger.

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